03/30/2011

Part 2 of the confirmation hearing for Hawaii's new Attorney General David M. Louie will take place on Tuesday April 5, 2011 at 9:00 am in the legislature building. Join us here as we live blog the event (technology permitting):

The live blog of the first part of the confirmation hearing is available here.

Mr. Louie has been acting Attorney General since January 14, 2011, following the retirement of Hawaii's former Attorney General Mark Bennett.

Prior to being nominated to be Attorney General by Governor Abercrombie, Mr. Louie was a founding member and managing partner at the Honolulu law firm of Roeca Louie & Hiraoka. Mr. Louie graduated from Occidental College (cum laude) in 1973 with an A.B. in Sociology, and received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977. From 1977 to 1988, Mr. Louie was an attorney at Case & Lynch.

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